Here’s an interesting description of a self-centered soul:
“Self-will so ardent and active
that it will break a world to pieces
to make a stool to sit on.“
Richard Cecil (1495-1553)
Where’s your center? On you, or on the world?
Sir Richard was an English nobleman, Master of Burghley (a 16th century country house, something like the fictional Downton Abbey), royal page and Groom of the Robes (in charge of the king’s ceremonial attire).
